🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 112

Acquiring considerable knowledge in the treatment of ordinary diseases incident to climate and exposure, he had become, in the estimation of his fellow-servants, a famous leech; and was at all times prepared, with entire self-possession and dignity, to indulge in blood-letting, to administer purgatives, prescribe hot baths, and recommend tonics.

Who acts: intervention · What happens: acquire, become, be, prepare, indulge, let · To what, where: considerable knowledge, treatment, estimation, times, purgatives, hot baths

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Pragmatics

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